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    Draft AAO Task Force on Developing Novel Endpoints for Premium IOLs Consensus Statements for Comment

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    IHE

    Ask about compliance with standards when you evaluate devices and software.

    Health information technology standards should increase the quality of care. The Hoskins Center and the Academy recommends you factor in standards when you evaluate devices, equipment and information systems for your practice. A list of companies participating in the Academy-sponsored standards initiative is available.

    An open standards approach gives you flexibility to select systems that meet your needs today and in the future as the digital landscape evolves. Single vendor, proprietary interfaces between devices and software in your office are not standards-based, and do not provide the same assurance of data integrity that standards-based interfaces do. The issue is connecting the right data to the right patient, whenever and wherever you may be viewing it. A standards-based approach enhances quality: you won't lose data in the future, and the right data is connected to the right patient.

    Standards Approach - Why you should care about standards?
    Why does the Hoskins Center and the Academy think that you should care about standards? Single vendor solutions tie a physician to the success of their selected vendor. Multi-vendor solutions, on the other hand, require a practice to become a "systems integrator," coordinating and problem solving. To have multiple systems connected to support the needs of the practice, systems need to be "interoperable" or talk to each other. This can be done either through an open standards approach or a private, proprietary approach.

    Standard-based approaches relevant to eye care include:

    • Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) for digital images and data
    • Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Eye Care for exchange of information between different systems within your practice

    The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Eye Care initiative brings together modality vendors, Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors, image management system vendors, physicians, hospitals, departments of ophthalmology in hospitals, etc., to define the actors and transactions that are required to capture, store, retrieve, process, communicate, etc., information in support of the delivery of medicine and the business activities essential to the economic survival of those organizations.

    The most fundamental benefits expected from integrated healthcare enterprises are economic reductions in the total cost of service delivery and quality of care improvements available  from the accessibility of EHR information used to optimize care and the utilization of resources required to deliver that care. Plug-to-plug compatibility and interoperable product alternatives should assist decision makers in selecting instruments, EHR systems, etc., that work together seamlessly without the need for special customized efforts and costs for installation and support.

    IHE Eye Care Technical Co-Chairs: Rick Butler (Medflow, Inc.) and Imran Chaudhri
    IHE Eye Care Planning Committee Co-Chairs: Jim Riggi (Medflow, Inc.) and Linda Wedemeyer (Veterans Administration)

    IHE Eye Care Technical Specifications

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    Final Text Technical Frameworks Volumes 1 and 2 for IHE Eye Care, Issued February 15, 2010 

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    • Vendors' DICOM Conformance and IHE Integration Statements
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    Find out more information about The Electronic Office:

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    DICOM

    The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard for the communication of medical images and associated information. This standard has been developed to meet the needs of manufacturers and users of medical imaging equipment for interconnection of devices on standard networks.

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    SNOMED

    Systematized Nomenclature for Human and Veterinary Medicine (SNOMED) was conceived from the start as a system for representing clinical information. Unlike ICD-9 and CPT4, it is not used for billing in the U.S.

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    Electronic Health Records

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    If you would like more information or are interested in being involved in IHE or DICOM, contact Flora Lum.

    CCHIT Certification

    Clarification that CCHIT Certification does not apply for any Eye Care Electronic Health Records.

    Currently, there is no eye care specialty CCHIT certification. The current process for testing is not designed for eye care only EHR vendors, and they cannot participate in the process unless they adapt to including ambulatory care elements. A lack of current CCHIT certification does not have significance for eye care specialty needs. Current CCHIT certification means that the system satisfies basic ambulatory care needs. Practices need to look at different systems and how they best meet your needs in delivering eye care services.

    At the current time it is problematic to ban the sale of non-CCHIT certified EHRs because not all specialties have CCHIT EHRs available to them at this time. Under the current CCHIT timeline for eye care certification criteria development, it will be virtually impossible for eye care providers to purchase certified systems that are designed for their specialty until 2011. Since most of the remaining surgical specialties are not yet on CCHIT's roadmap, and it is not clear when CCHIT will open its "environmental scan" process where groups can approach CCHIT about expanding certification to other areas, there is a concern that any other specialty approaching CCHIT with the same request is not likely to have certification criteria developed for their specialty until after 2011. If providers must purchase primary care focused EHR systems, they have to make significant and costly modifications to certified primary care focused EHR systems to make them feasible for managing their specific patients. Quality of care and reduced costs will be lost if this is mandated.



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